CircleCI Contracts

CircleCI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CircleCI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CircleCI over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 554 574
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -64
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 49 164 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.95% 1.82% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 127 229
10th Percentile £425 £494 £503
25th Percentile £513 £535 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £663
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.89% +20.45%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £750
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £586 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -13.19% +28.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK

CircleCI is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,183 9,016 15,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.90% 15.11% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,477 6,339 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 246 214
10th Percentile £32.48 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.60 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CircleCI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CircleCI.

Daily rate trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CircleCI.

Hourly rate trend for CircleCI in the UK

CircleCI
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CircleCI within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 43 £600 -11.11% 35
London +11 28 £600 -11.11% 17
Work from Home +81 15 £586 -19.17% 19
UK excluding London +53 13 £586 -13.19% 22
North of England +28 8 £625 -10.71% 8
Yorkshire +19 7 £635 -9.29% 7
Scotland +35 3 £400 -41.82% 1
South East +16 2 £350 - 8
North West - 1 £550 - 1

CircleCI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (71.43%) GitHub
2 26 (53.06%) AWS
3 20 (40.82%) Azure
4 18 (36.73%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (24.49%) GCP
6 6 (12.24%) Apigee
6 6 (12.24%) Kong
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.20%) Serverless
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.08%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (2.04%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) DNS
1 7 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (12.24%) Firewall
2 6 (12.24%) HTTP
2 6 (12.24%) VPN
3 1 (2.04%) DHCP
3 1 (2.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.12%) MySQL
4 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.08%) Big Data
5 2 (4.08%) DB2
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 20 (40.82%) Jenkins
2 16 (32.65%) GitLab
3 11 (22.45%) Git
4 10 (20.41%) Travis CI
5 7 (14.29%) Gradle
5 7 (14.29%) JIRA
6 6 (12.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (10.20%) JUnit
7 5 (10.20%) Mercurial
8 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.08%) RStudio
8 2 (4.08%) Selenium
9 1 (2.04%) Appium
9 1 (2.04%) Darcs
9 1 (2.04%) GoCD
9 1 (2.04%) gulp
9 1 (2.04%) Maven
9 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.16%) Law
3 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.08%) Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Front Office
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
5 5 (10.20%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Android Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Android Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Java Pricing Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Pricing Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Principal Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.61%) REST
2 8 (16.33%) Node.js
3 7 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (14.29%) RESTful
4 6 (12.24%) JSON
4 6 (12.24%) Spring
4 6 (12.24%) XML
4 6 (12.24%) YAML
5 5 (10.20%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (10.20%) Dagger
5 5 (10.20%) RAML
5 5 (10.20%) React
5 5 (10.20%) RxJava
6 4 (8.16%) Django
6 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
6 4 (8.16%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (8.16%) OkHttp
6 4 (8.16%) pytest
6 4 (8.16%) Web Services
6 4 (8.16%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Data Structures
1 6 (12.24%) Legacy Code
1 6 (12.24%) Mobile App
1 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
1 6 (12.24%) Virtual Team
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.04%) CBDC
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.04%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Android
2 3 (6.12%) Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
2 19 (38.78%) Agile
3 18 (36.73%) DevOps
4 14 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (24.49%) Open Source
7 10 (20.41%) Full Stack Development
7 10 (20.41%) Microservices
7 10 (20.41%) Scrum
8 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
8 9 (18.37%) DevSecOps
8 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.33%) Secure Coding
10 7 (14.29%) API Development
10 7 (14.29%) Computer Science
10 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 7 (14.29%) TDD
11 6 (12.24%) Project Management
11 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (12.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) Python
2 11 (22.45%) Java
2 11 (22.45%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) Bash
4 7 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.20%) Go
5 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.16%) C#
7 2 (4.08%) R
7 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.04%) C++
8 1 (2.04%) Groovy
8 1 (2.04%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) Ruby
8 1 (2.04%) Rust
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
8 1 (2.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) Degree
3 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.08%) NCSC
4 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 18 (36.73%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Ceph
2 1 (2.04%) NFS
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 21 (42.86%) Terraform
3 14 (28.57%) Ansible
4 9 (18.37%) Grafana
4 9 (18.37%) Progress Chef
4 9 (18.37%) Prometheus
5 8 (16.33%) Puppet
6 7 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (14.29%) Kibana
6 7 (14.29%) logstash
7 1 (2.04%) CASB
7 1 (2.04%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.04%) Mesos
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (4.08%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) Greenplum
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce